Posted on 09/14/2024 10:51:50 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
When my family moved back to the United States from East Africa in the mid-1980s, one might have thought it was a peak time of compassion for people suffering in faraway places. A glittering group of music superstars had recorded “We Are the World,” a smash hit charity single to raise money and awareness for the victims of a brutal famine that had gripped my mother’s home country, Ethiopia.
But when I told my new grade school classmates of my origins, I was met with cruel taunts. I was awfully fat for an Ethiopian, one said with a snigger. Must be nice to be able to have access to so much food, another joked. At the time, this was puzzling and upsetting — I had moved from Kenya, not Ethiopia, to my father’s home state, Minnesota. But the facts didn’t matter. These unkind remarks did the job the bullies hoped they would: They made me feel like an alien, an unwelcome stranger.
We live in even crueler times now, with humanitarian catastrophes unfolding on several continents, but the response of the wealthy world has been to demand tighter borders and higher fences. There is no blockbuster charity single raising money for starving refugees from the civil war raging in Sudan. And now, the cruel taunts come not just from schoolyard bullies and cranks on the political fringes, but from the lips of a man who stood on the presidential debate stage on Tuesday, a former president who once again has a coin-flip shot at regaining the most powerful office in the world.
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Hey Lydia, how do you identify a rich Ethopian?
By the Rolex around his waist!
When I grew up in Miami in my 30’s there was an influx of Haitians and Cubans in to the city, they practiced Santeria which involved the sacrifice of animals (both stolen and purchased) in their backyards. They would also eat the animals. We had a home in our neighborhood that was practicing Santeria. They still do. Trump is very close to the truth.
I don’t care if it was an attempt to lampoon President Trump, but that IS funny.
Quite right. Also, they seem to be living in very nice, single family homes, neighborhoods. THAT takes real money. Wherefrom?
That thing is a she?!
And one ugly woman!
>> Timing is everything.
LOL! Win some, lose some.
One mug shot of that thing is more than enough.
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I still don’t get it. Trump never said he is against immigration, legal immigration. These people think it’s their God given right to just come over here in droves.
Biden and Harris hatched this plan, and they’ve accomplished what they started.
You can criticize Trump’s way to say things, but he voices the frustration and anger all of us have here.
I suppose Trump telling us about 500,000 unaccounted children is over the line too?
Exactly.
All these childless “cat ladies” don’t care how many abortions the have but God forbid somebody hurts a stray cat.
This is the Leftist kryptonite, they don’t really care for immigrants, they just know it’s a way of eliminating their competition.
As long as there are poor people, they know they will have power.
I’m old enough to remember liberals wanting the white European countries to give up their overseas colonies because although they improved the people standard of living above the stone age style they lived to a modern, functional society so the white European people left these African countries to their own.
Well, fifty years later they are having wars, famines, a general degradation of the system the whites have left but now that their homeland has collapsed, it is “the white man’s burden” to bring them over here and expect them to not create the ruin they are escaping!
Yet again,they are being the very Hell they hoped to escape.
Madness!!
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